“Following an extensive national search initiated last September, Mich was selected to assume this key leadership role,” said Art Ushijima, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Queen’s Health Systems. “Mich has a very strong operations background and will work closely with our clinical staff and management. He also has significant labor relations experience. Mich is regarded as an ethical leader and team builder. Those who have worked with him say he is intelligent, industrious, hardworking, thoughtful and strategic. They also say he is mission-driven with the ability to assure financial sustainability. We look forward to Mich and his family joining the Queen’s ohana.”

Previously, Riccioni served as Chief Financial Officer of the St. Joseph Health System Northern California Region in Santa Rosa, located north of San Francisco. St. Joseph is a $6 billion system, headquartered in Orange County, California. The Region is comprised of five hospitals with an annual operating budget of $1.3 billion, where Riccioni was responsible for the financial operations of all five hospitals. Riccioni had served in this role since 2012. As the regional CFO, he had responsibility for accounting, audit, tax, budget, integrated strategic and financial planning, cash planning, revenue cycle, patient access, medical records, decision support, managed care and supply chain.

Prior to this, he served as CFO for two Hospitals in the Region and had been with the St. Joseph Health System since 2001. From 1986 to 2001, Riccioni served as chief financial officer of 80-bed Warrack Medical Center Hospital, a stand-alone independent hospital in Santa Rosa. Prior to Warrack, he worked for five years in public accounting as an auditor.

Riccioni is a CPA who earned his baccalaureate in accounting from California State University in Chico and his masters in health administration from St. Mary’s College in Moraga, California.